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Weegee is a character based on a sprite of Luigi from the MS-DOS port of "Mario is Missing". He first appeared on sites like 4Chan, Facebook, Newgrounds and YouTube somewhere around 2007 and 2008. He has been countlessly been used in YTPs in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

History[]

First created in the forums LUE links by user MonkeyInCloset in 2007. Weegee quickly gained popularity on 4Chan thanks to his strange appearance.

Weegeecreation

The birth of Weegee

The first use of the character was to take all kinds of images and put Weegee in them, making them either uncomfortable or humorous in a strange way.

Weegeememe

One of the first Weegee memes


Eventually Weegee would cross into other platforms, most notably Youtube, where would join the ranks of Zelda CDI games and Mario Hotel as one of the most popular memes for YTP.

Popularity and Criticism[]

As Weegee's popularity grew in YTP from 2008/9 to 2012 (with many videos gathering milions of views) backlash grew as well. Weegee was eventually considered as a meme within "Spadinner" sub-genre of YTP, along with memes from CDI games like Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon,Link: The Faces of Evil and Hotel Mario. In 2014 Hurricoaster would call Weegee a "meme replacement" in his updated descrpition of "The Sky Had A Weegee!". Weegee would also, like any meme, eventually fall out of style over the years . Unlike CDI memes like Morshu, he won't see a proper reintroduction in recent years.

Most notable appearances[]

Quotes[]

"Weegee!"

"Obey Weegee! Destroy Mario!"

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